The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.

Monday, August 31, 2015

A Shy Spider

...With a "face" marking!

It -- probably she, from the size -- is another orb weaver, with yellow knees, and very shy. It's built several webs on the side of the front porch and in what appears a typical ploy, the first web was very big and subsequent ones are smaller. Testing the bug flight paths?

When I walked down the steps and around on the grass to get a photo of the top of the spider, it ran up to one corner, adopted a contorted-looking pose, and held it. Nothing to see here! Just an old dead bug! Move on, move on.

"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."